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 The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell
 The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell ... fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted in this adventure from the pen of Sweden's master of crime and mystery. Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. But when the solicitor also turns up dead, shot three times, Wallander realises that he was wrong not to listen. Against his better judgment, he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case.Newest Review: ... shot a man in the line of duty. He spends some time away from Ystad, where an old friend, Sten Torstenson, finds him and ... more ... tries to persuade him to get involved in his father's suspicious death. Wallander is not persuaded and returns to Ystad determined to hand in his resignation once and for all.
However, on his return, he discovers that Sten was shot dead a few weeks after his father, both of whom were local solicitors. Feeling guilty that Sten had asked him for his help, Wallander decides to go back to work to persuade his colleagues that the deaths were both suspicious. During his investigation, he narrowly avoids being blown up, which...more |
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The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell: Sweden's master of crime fiction (770 words)
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Introduction Although this book has only just been published in English, the original, the fourth in the Wallander series, was published back in 1994. For some reason, the books following this were translated and published in English first. Knowing that Mankell has now come to the end of his Wallander series, having handed over to his rookie daughter Linda, it was an unexpected pleasure to have another chance to enjoy Kurt Wallander at the height of his career. The author There seems to have been a spate of excellent crime fiction novels written by Scandinavian authors over the past few years, including Arnaldur Indridason, Ake Edwardson and Karin ... Read the complete review
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